China’s MiniMax launches updated AI model M3.1 Flash, claims major improvements
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MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash model, says it cuts AI agent costs by 70%
Chinese artificial intelligence developer MiniMax Group Inc. today released M3.1 Flash, a faster and cheaper update to the M3 large language model it launched in June. The release takes aim at the cost of running AI agents, which often need dozens of model calls to finish a single job. MiniMax said Flash represents its “ongoing […]
MiniMax M3.1 Flash Launched With 200 Trillion Tokens of Proof. The Name Came Second.
The most effective way to launch a foundation model in 2026 is no longer a splashy press release or a coordinated social media campaign. Instead, it is the quiet, high-volume stress test of an anonymous identity. When MiniMax officially unveiled its M3.1 Flash on October 19, the company was not introducing a new product to […]
MiniMax M3.1 Flash shows China's AI price race has no floor in sight
MiniMax's M3.1 Flash jumps 13 points over its predecessor to 42 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, at half the cost. It also hits 73.7 percent on the DeepSWE v1.1 coding benchmark for under $0.30 per task, matching Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 on both performance and price. The article MiniMax M3.1 Flash shows China's AI price race has no floor in sight appeared first on The Decoder.
With M3.1 Flash, MiniMax introduces a Reasoning model that reaches 42 points in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 13 more than its predecessor at half cost. In the Humanity-Es Last Exam, Deepseek V4.1 Flash outperforms it, but weakens with a 93% hallucination rate. The article MiniMax M3.1 Flash is China's latest model, the AI price pushes towards Keller appeared first on The Decoder.
China's MiniMax And DeepSeek Have A Compute Capacity Of Sub-100,000 H100-Equvalent GPUs, And Yet Their Latest Models Continue To Scale The Frontier Curve, With Distillation Failing To Explain This Disparity
The heretofore uncontested placement of the DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 model at the pareto on the agentic benchmark score vs. cost curve (which simply means that the model achieves an optimal balance between the two) was fairly short-lived, with the new MiniMax M3.1 Flash having just taken a lead. Even so, with Anthropic and OpenAI both clamping down on distillation attempts, it is uncertain if China's AI labs would be able to maintain their curre…
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